Whatever you do don't just blindly assume your tax person knows everything and will act in your best interests.

Don’t do this blindly.

Best rule of thumb: keep your blinds down and move the demo trash and such by night!

Please don't jump in blind, feet-first.

If your property is substantially complete and you lack some paint and window blinds, you can probably figure something out.

It's money to be made and money to lose going in blind and uninformed.

I'm new to notes, too, so to avoid "the blind leading the blind," I'll leave #1 & 3 to more experienced note investors. 

I wouldn't buy blind in an unknown area.  

But I also don't want to blindly make calls or meet with people only to get nowhere, so I was hoping there were some HARP friendly lenders out there to go to first.If I had to guess, the property probably has a LTV of around 115%, although it's hard to say because there are no real comps to look at (extremely rural area, unique waterfront/lot size anomalies with our property, etc).

@Maria Kazak greetings from Tallahassee/Gulf Breeze It appears that you are in a blind spot.